One of the four main components of beer, yeast is often overlooked in favor of malt and hops. Here's what you should know. For more than 20 years John Holl has been covering the beer industry as a ...

We’ll drink to that! Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech have found a way to use recycled beer yeast to make water cleaner by removing lead, the schools announced ...

The discovery of a surprising survival mechanism used by beer-brewing yeast could lead to new approaches for fighting cancer. This is the promise of researchers led from the University of Virginia, ...

Scientists have figured out a way to use the leftovers from brewing beer to remove heavy metals from electrical recycling waste. The metal waste that comes from the recycling of electrical products is ...

Like many potentially hare-brained projects, Dylan McDonnell’s idea to brew beer from yeast that’s nearly 3,000 years old started during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, McDonnell, an avid home-brewer ...

Dinosaurs probably weren't chugging down beers, but that doesn't mean people can't sample the booze they might have imbibed had they known how to brew. Other than a time machine, there aren't exactly ...

When brewer’s yeast left over from beer making is mixed with the right seasonings, it makes a bitter, earthy paste called Marmite that is especially popular in the U.K. Smeared on toast, it’s a snack ...

A Cincinnati brewing company will unveil a new beer this fall that is out of this world. Or high altitude at least. Rhinegeist Brewery is producing 16 kegs of its new Apex Apple Ale, brewed from yeast ...

In case you missed it, July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. On the bright-ish side, research shows that 69% of Americans want our nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. Achieving ...